Call for Expression of Interest for
Professional Expertise in the Field of Promoting Social Dialogue
Building Capacity of Employers’ Organisations (EOs)
Budget line: IPA – Human Resources Development 04 06 01
MKD/13/02/MKD
Introduction and background
The beneficiary country gained the candidate status for the accession to European Union (EU)
in 2005 and a number of progress reports by the European Commission (EC) indicated the
need to further develop social dialogue (SD) among main stakeholders in the economy and at
all levels. The country has a clear objective to attract foreign direct investment and create
more and better jobs. Developed social dialogue and strong SD institutions will give a signal
to the potential investors that the country has stable industrial relations.
The Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) project on Promoting Social Dialogue is
funded by the EU and is being implemented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
under the leadership of the ILO Budapest office. The overall objective of this project is to
extend and enhance tripartite and bipartite social dialogue as a means to achieve economic
growth and social progress. This will be achieved through institutional and legislative
improvement along with activities aimed at strengthening the capacities of tripartite actors
in the labour market to engage effectively in social dialogue. The project has a comprehensive
approach and aims to provide technical support to both institutions and participants in social
dialogue processes, including collective bargaining at the national, branch, and local level.
The project consists of three interlinked components, designed to address challenges which
national tripartite actors are currently facing in a coherent and complementary manner:
Component 1: Enhancing tripartite social dialogue on national and local level
This component focuses on capacity building activities to be delivered by the ILO
technical specialists along with practitioners from EU member states (MS) on
topics such as wage fixing in the public sector, minimum wage setting and its
relation to the informal economy, employment relationship, social security
reforms, active labour market policies, youth employment, collective bargaining
benefits including wage-productivity linkage among others to the members of the
ESC and its permanent secretariat. The project will also facilitate the creation of
an external “pool” of technical expertise the ESC will be able to draw on in order
to expand its research scope.
Project funded by the
European Union
Project implemented by the
International Labour Organisation
Promoting Social Dialogue
Component 2: Encouraging collective bargaining and setting sectoral collective
bargaining infrastructures
This component of the project will enhance the capacity of both the government
and the social partners to increase the effectiveness of collective bargaining.
Measures will be devised and implemented with ILO assistance in the framework
of a national tripartite Action Plan.
Technical capacity of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy to pro-actively
perform its key functions to promote collective bargaining including the setting of
enabling regulatory and institutional frameworks will be strengthened. At the
same time, the capacity of employers’ organizations and trade unions to negotiate
effectively and to reach out to potential members will be reinforced. The latter
will be achieved through implementation of a training programme on how to
effectively engage in collective bargaining targeting employers’ and workers’
organizations at national and sectoral level.
Component 3: Establishing an operational amicable settlement of labour
disputes
Under this component, the project will assist in the establishment of an
operational and cost-effective mechanism for amicable settlement of labour
disputes, and will support the creation and training of a roster of specialised labour
mediators/conciliators. Once implemented, the new mechanism is expected to
support the social partners in preventing and resolving disputes arising in the
process of collective bargaining.
External collaborators working with employers’ organisations
As detailed above, independent and representative employers’ organizations are one of the
pre-requisites of a sound and stable industrial relations system. Component 2 will particularly
focus on the capacity building of employers’ organizations. The present call for expression of
interest aims at prospecting experts who will be engaged in the capacity building of
employers’ organizations. Activities would be coordinated by Mr Dragan Radić, the Senior
Specialist for Employers’ Activities of the Budapest ILO office.
Local and international collaborators working in the following fields of expertise and
interested in completing assignments detailed below are encouraged to submit their
applications:
Project funded by the
European Union
Project implemented by the
International Labour Organisation
Promoting Social Dialogue
Area of
expertise
Collective
bargaining
Activity
Task details
Indicator of success
Time
frame
2.2.1
Training
programme
for EOs and
employers
on
collective
bargaining
1. Revision and
development of
collective
bargaining
manual for EOs.
Collective bargaining –
guide for employers is
reviewed and developed
(localised). Employers’
organisation are trained on
how to engage
meaningfully in collective
bargaining, including
negotiation techniques,
different aspects of
collective agreements and
how to improve
coordination among
various levels of collective
bargaining using existing
ILO collective bargaining
tools.
Septem
ber 2015
to April
2016
2. Provision of
collective
bargaining
training to EOs
Project funded by the
European Union
Estimate
d
number
of days
Fifteen
days (15)
Project implemented by the
International Labour Organisation
Promoting Social Dialogue
After completing the above listed activities, EOs would have a “Guide for employers on
collective bargaining” and improved understanding of how to conduct collective bargaining.
Application of External Collaborators/Consulting companies
Consulting companies and/or persons interested to collaborate with the IPA/ILO project on
promoting social dialogue one or more of the above areas of expertise are kindly requested
to submit their expression of interest by 15 September 2015 to the e-mail address
radic@ilo.org and simjanoska@ilo.org Individual collaborators should submit their CV and a
short description indicating that they have appropriate professional knowledge and
experience to participate in the mentioned project activities, as well as contact data.
Individual Candidates should fulfil the following requirements:
-
Minimum of 5 years of experience in the corresponding area of expertise;
Fluency in the English language and familiarity with professional terminology;
Strong analytical skills and experience in similar type of work;
Computer literacy;
University degree;
Client-oriented approach, namely tact and ability to work with people and effective
provision of services;
- Ability to manage the flow of information and adhere to deadlines and commitments;
- Positive and constructive attitude;
- Bank account suitable for receiving transfers from abroad
According to ILO project rules, experts cannot be civil servants. The ILO retains the right to
accept or reject any application. Selection of candidates will be done according to ILO project
procedures. Candidates will be contacted by the EO activity coordinator and they will receive
the terms of reference with detailed requirements and descriptions of tasks. All candidates
selected for a particular assignment will sign an external collaboration contract with the ILO
for the specific task and for a specific duration; this by no means constitutes permanent
employment by the ILO or any prospect thereof.
Project funded by the
European Union
Project implemented by the
International Labour Organisation
Promoting Social Dialogue